Example sentences of "but they [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 2 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 3 | So where he is now , they really stretch them but they unwind them in the afternoons by games and and |
| 4 | When you walked into the well what I would call a cupboard but they classed it as the bathroom . |
| 5 | But they had one in the corner you see and I could see the back leg was gone said to Margaret an said I might as well do something of that , you know , to do up it 's the only one that they had there that wanted really wanted repairing , so the feller said ooh I do n't know he said hang on , I 'll look in the book . |
| 6 | But they took them into the castle at Montgomery , prisoners . ’ |
| 7 | And erm I did n't get the actual job I went for but they put me on the , on the relief register so that I go round to different people 's homes or different big hospitals and different Mencap homes relieving people when they 're on holiday or if they 're short of staff or something like that . |
| 8 | ‘ When I vacated the office I asked the Rates Agency to send me an adjusted bill , but they sent it to the office and I did not get it , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Yes but they take it from the book . |
| 10 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 11 | It was fully half an hour before the farmer and the farmhands beat out all the flames , but they managed it in the end . |
| 12 | Those of the cast who remembered the euphoria of Taunton were disappointed , but they comforted themselves with the fact that they were at least on , something which three days previously had looked most unlikely . |
| 13 | They discuss how information is processed to achieve a particular end ( storage and retrieval in memory , for example ) , but they say nothing about the borderline to be drawn between the conscious and unconscious parts of these procedures . |
| 14 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 15 | These were demanded relentlessly by the Russian government and by traders because of their commercial value , but they contributed nothing to the natural economy of the natives . |
| 16 | Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it |
| 17 | Women are responsible for family finances but they have none of the power that goes with possession . |
| 18 | Nicol gave as good an account of himself as any of us , elder though he may be , and kept the key of the coffer safe , but they threw him off the cart , and coffer and all are gone , for it was there among the coppice wood . |